Example sentences of "come down [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’
2 The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country .
3 It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this .
4 Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension .
5 The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out .
6 Bill could n't beli well they came down to seventeen pound , I thought well that 's not much
7 The first game was good , but it came down to one player , Garrison , who was desperate to win , and one player , Graff , who just kind of did n't want to lose .
8 One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other .
9 Above all , we must move junior doctors on to a shift system so that they do not work more than 60 hours , coming down to 56 hours in the most intensive posts .
10 I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now .
11 I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now .
12 One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve .
13 There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another .
14 He 'll not come down for two week !
15 ‘ Ah , I will come down in one minute , madam .
16 Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage .
17 To sum up , when buying clubs it comes down to two things — that you must seek the judgement of a qualified professional golfer you trust , and the clubs have to feel right and look right for you .
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